Agile Requirements Foundations

Course details

Customer needs change every day. We need our products to keep up. Take an agile approach to requirements analysis: Learn the mindset and techniques necessary to discover requirements for an agile project and succeed in the business analyst (BA) role. Angela Wick reviews the 12 agile principles from a BA's perspective, introduces backlog management techniques, and discusses techniques such as product decomposition, user stories and story maps, which help BAs deliver products that truly delight customers. Plus, find out what concepts such as "minimum viable product" and "value stream" mean to people in the BA role.

Learning objectives
Define the business analyst’s role in agile.
Identify agile principles five through eight from a business analyst’s perspective.
Explore the business analyst’s point of view on an agile team.
Determine the increments of value on an agile team.
Examine the fundamentals of determining the level of detail in the backlog.
Recognize the steps involved in collaborating with the product owner on the backlog.
Determine the purpose of the acceptance criteria.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome
02 - What you need to know
03 - Using the exercise files

1. Agile and the Business Analyst

04 - The business analyst role in agile
05 - The agile manifesto from a business analyst perspective
06 - Agile principles 1 4 from a business analyst perspective
07 - Agile principles 5 8 from a business analyst perspective
08 - Agile principles 9 12 from a business analyst perspective

2. Agile Point of View

09 - The business analyst point of view on an agile team
10 - Key agile mindsets of business analysts
11 - Increments of value
12 - Volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA)
13 - Day in the life of an agile business analyst

3. Backlog Management

14 - A healthy backlog
15 - Ownership of the backlog
16 - Level of detail in the backlog
17 - Refining the backlog
18 - Analyzing the backlog
19 - Collaborating with the product owner on the backlog

4. Techniques for Agile Business Analysts

20 - Product decomposition
21 - Context techniques
22 - User stories
23 - Acceptance criteria
24 - User story maps
25 - Story slicing and splitting
26 - Lightweight modeling

5. Agile Concepts for Business Analysts

27 - Last responsible moment
28 - Minimum viable product (MVP)
29 - Experiments
30 - Value stream
31 - Outcome-focused
32 - Who is the customer

Conclusion

33 - Next steps